FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[Devin Teske]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> hackers at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Julian Elischer
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:56 AM
> To: Mark Felder
> Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle
> 
[snip]

> Where I used to work (Devin Teske is now there)  we used to use the 'stable'
> branch and rolll our own releases.
> the criticality of those systems was hard to over-emphasize. In 2005 we worked
> out we processed 1.5 trillion dollars of transactions on those systems.
> 

Got new stats. In 2011 we ran $1.61T USD through FreeBSD.

Separately, we ran another $0.05T USD through Linux in the same year.

Kinda says something about, doesn't it?
-- 
Devin

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